From the category archives:

Parity

Health Reform’s Implications for Behavioral Health Providers: Sept. 21 Webinar with SAMHSA

The National Council held a free webinar offered by SAMHSA’s Co-Occurring Disorders Integration & Innovation. Click Here to view the recording The passage of the [...]

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David Lloyd on Meeting Access-to-Care Performance Standards

Will you meet access-to-care performance standards? If the public and payers perceive community behavioral health organizations as having a prolonged wait time to treatment … and [...]

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National Council Webinar Covers Enhancing Mental Health and Addictions Treatment Capacity

With the onset of parity and healthcare reform implementation, community behavioral health organizations will have to meet significant increase in demand and work within new [...]

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Will We Need a Separate Mental Health System?

“If the new federal law equalizing coverage for mental conditions with that for medical–surgical care works as hoped, there may no longer be a need [...]

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Parity and Healthcare Reform: Community Behavioral Health at a Crossroads

Don’t miss David Lloyd’s webinar July 13 when he delivers recommendations, readiness assessment and strategies to help you prepare for healthcare reform. Organizations will need [...]

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Will You Collect on the Promise of Reform?

To be successful, we must acknowledge and overcome our own tendency to resist change, and we need to accelerate our pace when we accept that [...]

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Winning the Fight for the Future of Healthcare Reform

An interview with William Kyles and Linda Rosenberg,  National Council’s Board Chair and President/CEO These are difficult times and although there is the hope of [...]

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